I recently played through Jade Empire, a Bioware RPG release in 2006 and set in a fictional East-Asian society. It’s a little bit old so I played it on recommendation, buying the game off Steam. On a little side note, if you want to try it out I recommend setting it up on Windows…

Kate Beaton offers a hilarious summary of what I’ll be discussing in this comic. Check it out. Now don’t get me wrong, I am a true believer that the ownership of one’s sexuality is truly empowering. But what I’m going to argue today is that by objectifying even the strongest, most independent characters can and…

The intention of this post is to initiate a conversation about the treatment of race in games. Countless resources have been written about the treatment of race in the media, however few exist that work solely towards deconstructing race in games. I wanted to gather some of these resources to start a conversation about racist…